(54 quotes found)
“One more, and this the last:So sweet was ne'er so fatal.”
William Shakespeare
“Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.”
Lord Byron
“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”
Mark Twain
“He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.”
William Blake
“Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.”
Alexander Pope
“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”
“If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown: Then if she fear or be to blame, By this you shall not know, For still her cheeks possess the same, Which native s”
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action”
